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Call of Duty: Black Ops II |OT| Black to the Future
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The popular theory is that they had to re-write the netcode in order to include theater mode, and they simply couldn't do it as well as id did with the Q3A netcode (which is what CoD4 and MW2 used).
There's probably some truth to it. At some point, everything that has been added on top of CoD4 must have required some substantial coding/recoding for it to all work together.
Bottom line, at some point, something changed that resulted in the bizarre netcode/experience we have today, which is really unfortunate since BLOPS2 is a really solid game, but is a pain in the ass to play.
mw2 has good netcode too
MisterC20XX
Member
I just bought the PS3 version yesterday and I wasn't aware of this master prestige glitch. I played a couple hours last night for the first time and after watching some YouTube videos about the glitch it all makes sense now. In public matches you see a lot of players who are master prestige who don't, um, seem to have a lot of skill. It's crazy to get into a public FFA match and everyone is master prestige. I'm not saying they all used the glitch, but you can sometimes tell who did. Some people even brag about it and offer to help others glitch for money. I hope Treyarch fixes this soon.
I might be an easy-going, semi-casual noob trying to figure things out but at least I can say I got to level 11 the old fashioned way: I earned it! ;-)
I might be an easy-going, semi-casual noob trying to figure things out but at least I can say I got to level 11 the old fashioned way: I earned it! ;-)
I just started playing Hardcore Kill Confirmed. I like it a lot more than regular deathmatch. However, I have one huge whine about it, or actually two:
- When people betray you, your points reset.
- Accidental killing your team mates with airstrikes. I have been kicked out of at least 3 games in the past two hours, ARGHH!!
- When people betray you, your points reset.
- Accidental killing your team mates with airstrikes. I have been kicked out of at least 3 games in the past two hours, ARGHH!!
Game hates you, only reasonable answer.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
R870 with Laser Sight and Long Barrel
Lightweight/Ghost
Cold Blooded
Engineer/Extreme Conditioning
Such a beast setup for Kill Confirmed. Try it out.
Lightweight and Extreme Conditioning compliment each other really well, and allows you to maneuver the maps quicker and for a longer duration than everyone else, while being undetected by UAV spammers every 15 seconds. Engineer allows you to see where the Bouncing Betties, Shock Charges, Sentry Guns and Guardians are located, so you can see where potential campers may be at.
It's better to hip fire with the R870 since ADSing will give the other player an advantage, since there's a slight delay in ADSing. Hip firing also had a tighter spread and just allows you to fire faster with accuracy from the laser sight.
Lightweight/Ghost
Cold Blooded
Engineer/Extreme Conditioning
Such a beast setup for Kill Confirmed. Try it out.
Lightweight and Extreme Conditioning compliment each other really well, and allows you to maneuver the maps quicker and for a longer duration than everyone else, while being undetected by UAV spammers every 15 seconds. Engineer allows you to see where the Bouncing Betties, Shock Charges, Sentry Guns and Guardians are located, so you can see where potential campers may be at.
It's better to hip fire with the R870 since ADSing will give the other player an advantage, since there's a slight delay in ADSing. Hip firing also had a tighter spread and just allows you to fire faster with accuracy from the laser sight.
Uno Venova
Banned
So what did that 360 update do?
Mr. Enigma
Member
Vahn said it was all under the hood stuff. No gameplay changes.
Mr. Enigma
Member
EL PRESADOR commentates a guy going 163-0 in a Domination game.
WORLD RECORD 163 KILLS 0 DEATHS CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS 2
WORLD RECORD 163 KILLS 0 DEATHS CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS 2
Why Cold Blooded though?
That's not true. ADS has a 2 degree spread. It's MUCH tighter than hip firing w/ or w/o laser sight. I believe it's 10 deg w/o laser sight. I forget what it is w/ LS but it isn't as small as 2 degrees.
pistols are overpowered as fuck
better than most my primaries lmao
Ya people get some crazy ass kills on me with them. Once im done getting diamond smg's i think ill give them a go... if i last that long lol.
Deputy Dangle
Member
How have Treyarch's map packs been in the past? I've never bought any map packs for this series, but I'm really considering them for this.
I use toughness on my Shotgun class. But yeah mine is similar, except engineer is dexterity and I use stock or the quickdraw.
Also I use a C4 as a "long range" weapon lol
I was going to clap my little hands together at the thought but somehow I doubt any of these said noobs would venture into HC S&D ... On PC.
GenericUser
Member
how many people are in that playlist? 7?
anyway, typ 25 + adjustable stock, fore grip, target finder = OP.
SlackAdjuster
Member
I can deal with it once and awhile but when it happens the majority of the time I'm playing I cant do it. It really felt like it had somehow gotten a little better the past week or so, still some issues here and there but not rage inducing like it was.
Then I got on early today. Played 6 or 7 games and rage had been induced once again. Every game felt like it was a few weeks ago - like I'm half a second slower than everyone else. Backed out of rooms twice to try and get a better room. Every game was garbage like that. Meh...
SlackAdjuster
Member
I do that. I'm not waiting around to see if someone is coming to get the tags or not. The team that finishes with the most tags wins. There are so many people that sit in windows or behind a box somewhere aiming down a corridor (that should be playing team deathmatch instead) that I'm not gonna run by a tag and not grab it.
RocketDarkness
Member
Diamond'd my shotguns today. Went quite smoothly, the only minor hitch was getting 1-hit kills with the M1216. It's great at killing, just not great at killing on the first shot.
Messed around with the clip editor functionality a bit and tossed a video online for testing. Cherrypicked some of the better moments during my M1216 leveling on Express: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap36MPOm4OU
Messed around with the clip editor functionality a bit and tossed a video online for testing. Cherrypicked some of the better moments during my M1216 leveling on Express: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap36MPOm4OU
Jesus Christ. How
By playing in combat training.
Hasn't that always been a knock on Treyarch? I remember World at War was something poor too.
Mr. Enigma
Member
Watch the vid. It's not combat training. It's ground war.
What difference does this make apart from faster switching?
Lethals and tacticals come out real fast
It's cool when you play alone but in a party it's stupid. What ended up happening is I'd just get more aggressive trying to get my own tags that we'd end up both dying as I raced him to get +100.
I understand if I'm in mid-long range and someone confirms my kills but he was literally racing me, into danger, to grab tags from enemies I killed in shotgun range.. dafuq
As said, equipment goes out quicker, but I switched it to Scavenger (just unlocked it).
Oh there's plenty, you still see a lot of familiar faces though so it's not exactly a crowded playlist. It's just a trifecta of goodies people don't want to touch; no respawn, insta-death and on PC. Probably one of the least used playlists of all platforms combined
On another note, never saw myself go exclusive with one weapon but used a permanent token on the AN-94 and it's such an enjoyable weapon to use.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Open map and his killstreaks are murdering the fuck out of people.
Just had my first game over 10K points. Ended with 25000 playing headquarters. 84-20 with 10 caps and 30 defends. Lightning Strike is a beast in this mode. Cap the point and then wait till your team is wiped out. Strike on the box. BOOM!, 5+ kills. And they fall for it every time
Good gameplay, but I don't think it's anything special considering he's just using the killstreaks to get the majority of his kills and looping them over and over.
Now if he did that score or something closer with nothing but gun skill, than I would be amazed.
Man I wish they would do some tweaking in Hardcore and some general options:
- Team Damage in HC is way too high, so many teamkills it's crazy and you can't even blame people because when the mode is that intense you shoot per reaction. Wish they'd up the damage to Core levels of damage on teammates. A TK in S&D can be disastrous for the outcome. ( God the amount of times I've been destroying the other team, then had that random greenhorn shoot me only to lose the round )
- Give us a mercenary S&D list, for the love of god. Sick of playing against these 5-6 big guns who are very clearly working together on Teamspeak or whatever they use. Ends up being a massive steamroll when you meet these guys ... Which is too often.
- Give me an option to remove the A & B bombsite tags, they are way too big, always obscure my view and I've been killed multiple times because of them. I've played the maps a million times, I know where the bombsites are. Then add a little subtle ring for the bombsite where the bomb is planted or needs to be defended. Same goes with a non-carried bomb, a small subtle tag for the love of christ.
If they could fix this I'd be in heaven.
- Team Damage in HC is way too high, so many teamkills it's crazy and you can't even blame people because when the mode is that intense you shoot per reaction. Wish they'd up the damage to Core levels of damage on teammates. A TK in S&D can be disastrous for the outcome. ( God the amount of times I've been destroying the other team, then had that random greenhorn shoot me only to lose the round )
- Give us a mercenary S&D list, for the love of god. Sick of playing against these 5-6 big guns who are very clearly working together on Teamspeak or whatever they use. Ends up being a massive steamroll when you meet these guys ... Which is too often.
- Give me an option to remove the A & B bombsite tags, they are way too big, always obscure my view and I've been killed multiple times because of them. I've played the maps a million times, I know where the bombsites are. Then add a little subtle ring for the bombsite where the bomb is planted or needs to be defended. Same goes with a non-carried bomb, a small subtle tag for the love of christ.
If they could fix this I'd be in heaven.
Just make it ricochet. As long as there are hosts on console, it doesn't make sense to have team damage on when host can just grief by killing everyone and never be booted. Either make it first 3 kills are TK then switch to ricochet or make it ricochet all the time. I think the TTKs are still probably too fast for 300% HC HP for team only although it would be another "solution" to the issue.
That solution is probably trickier to code. They've done ricochet before and it worked so I don't understand why they've gone away from it.
I've only been booted 3 times from HC modes for TK. All the times I was at the top of the scoreboard with my team winning. Feels bad man
That solution is probably trickier to code. They've done ricochet before and it worked so I don't understand why they've gone away from it.
I've only been booted 3 times from HC modes for TK. All the times I was at the top of the scoreboard with my team winning. Feels bad man
I agree with this. It's one of the things I really dislike about hardcore. You die way to quick in my opinion. I have killed (and been killed) dozen of teammates who walked in front of my scope or airstrike.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Some naked FAL action:
http://youtu.be/Tx8opU925a8
Can't wait to put Stock + Suppressor + Select Fire on it. Or maybe I'll replace the Suppressor with Quick Draw or Reflex Sight. What say you?
http://youtu.be/Tx8opU925a8
Can't wait to put Stock + Suppressor + Select Fire on it. Or maybe I'll replace the Suppressor with Quick Draw or Reflex Sight. What say you?
shungokusatsu
Member
Man, the prestige master exploit on PS3 is out of control. I was in a room where nearly everyone but me was a prestige master yet my overall stats were much higher than theirs.
Select Fire isnt that great. You can spam faster than select fire can shoot. Also, select has dickloads more recoil than semi auto. My FAL has Foregrip, Stock and Hybrid Optics. You can switch the optics for something else, but i really feel that Hybrid makes you deadly, no matter the range.
I also discovered Millimeter scanner. Sweet lord its OP. Especially on Hardpoint/Headquarters
>Trophy System is worthless at the moment. Its destroyed after killing 1 nade. It should be at least 3...
If I had to guess, I would say 2/3 of those kills were from the swarms and dogs. I wonder if he would even be able to get those scorestreaks in TDM since you don't get the objective bonus points for scorestreaks which are pretty massive.